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THE TWICER-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1907.
2-CENT FARE ARGUED
BEFORE R. R. COMMISSION
COLO WAVE KILLED
FRUIT MD TRUCK
ATLANTA. April 2.—It was a ease of
skirmishing in the 2-cent passenger
fare proposition before the railroad
commission today.
The plaintiff, the Georgia Farmer*’
Union, presented their case in very
general terms, submit tins no evidence,
no facts and no flguer* beyond a state
ment of counsel that the railroads of
the state are earning more than ever
before in their history and that the
general prosperity of the country Justi
fies a concession to the people in the
shape of a reduced charge for passen
ger trav.!.
The railroads, some twenty-live or
thiry. of which were represented before
the commission, followed similar lines,
dealing only in general assertion* such
as that they are entitled to share in
the general prosperity, that their oper
ating expense* are heavier than over
before and that they tire not earning
anything like as much in proportion as
other industries, when the prosperity
of the times is taken into consideration.
This was really about ail there was
to the hearing, at the conclusion of
which the railroad commissioners post
poned the further hearing of the case
to April 23. at which time the railroad
will be expected to present such fur
ther facts and figures as they deslr
and It was announced by the commis
sion that at that time the hearing will
be continued from day to day until it
la finally concluded.
Just why Judge J. K. Hines, attorney
for the Farmers’ Union, was not pres
ent at the hearing which took place in
♦ he Senate chamber at 10 o’clock, was
not made apparent. Judge Hines, it
appears, was absent from the city
without having given notice to National
President C. S. Barrett of the Farmers’
Union, who came here for the hearing,
and It becoming necessary to procure
counsel, Mr. Barrett secured Hooper
Alexander Just a short time before the
bearing was to take place. J. R. Jor
dan also apeared as counsel for the pe
titioners.
“We have no definite figures,” said
Mr. Alexander, “but are ready to pre
sent our views.”
Mr. Alexander then announced that
be would request Railroad Commis
sioner Joseph M. 'Brown to make a
statement, as a witness, regarding the
result of reduced passenger fares on
the Western and Atlantic Railroad at
the time when he was in control of Its
traffic department. Other matters In
tervened. and the request not being re
newed Mr. Brown was not called to the
witness stand.
Several of the roads, the Seaboard
Air Line, O. S. & F.. Macon. Dublin
and Savannah and others asked for a
postponement of the passenger matter
as to them until April 17. This problem
was solved at the conclusion of the
hearing by a postponement as to all
railroads until April 23. though the
Seaboard was given permission to pre
sent its case as to passenger reduction
on April 17.
Vice-President W. A. TYInbujn, of
tbe Central of Georgia, submitted an
answer on the part of his road to the
petition as filed by the Farmers’ Union.
This answer was general in terms
merely calling attention to the presen-
’ tatlon of the Central’s case when the
passenger fare qustlon was last up In
i!»or..
Traffic Manager A. Pope, of the
Georgia and Florida railroad, parts of
wliith arc under construction, spoke
briefly for the short, independetly own
ed tines In Georgia. He said the short
lines tood ready to answer as soon as
they know what it was they were re
quired to answer.
There were several more requests for
postponement when Chairman Hill
stated that, the hearing would proceed
as far ns It was possible to go. Mr.
Alexander stated that the complain
ants had no evidence and could not get
i! because It was Impossible for them
to compel the railroads to produce it.
F. H. Hardwick, passenger traffic
manager of the Southern Railway, said
the Southern stood ready to answer the
complaint ns soon as it was made
aware what the complaint was. If the
petition contained everything the com
plainants had to present, the South
ern was ready to answer at once. But
ir there were other facts to be brought
before the. commission, the Southern
would like to hear them befor submit
ting Its reply.
A'exander States the Case.
"The petitioners.” said Mr. Alexan
der In opening his statement of the
ease from their standpoint, "come here
to ask you to fix a lower rate of pas
senger fare than now prevails in Geor
gia. We think two cents a mile Is suf
ficient. but we are not undertaking to
lay down any absolute sum.”
Mr. Alexader argued that the rail
road commission is not a court, but a
tribunal clothed with the power to fix
Just and reasonable tolls. Just as in
local communities there were and still
nre at times, tribunals empowered to
fix a fair rate of toll across privately
owned bridges.
The railroads are public servants of
the •State, he contended just as much
as justices of the peace; like them they
collect their own compensation, enjoy
ing franchises given them bv the peo
ple.
He compared the railroad commis
sion to the official under the Roman re
public known as the tribune of the
people whose duty it was too look after
the relations between the powerful and
the great, on the one hand, and the
masses of the people on the other.
“The mistake others have made in
coming before this commission with
complaints.” he said, "is that they have
not been able to procure needed evi
dence and they have come here without
it Then the railroads reiort. and not
without reason "You don’t know what
you are talking about.' ”
The complainants. Mr. Alexander
•eontinued, are compelled to ttVte the
figures furnished by the railroads
themselves. Nevertheless these figures
show the railroads are earning greatx-
proflt than ever before In their hi«tor.\
thelr . proflts have grown from year to
year to a point where they are far
moo than enough to pay a reasonable
return on their actual investments Yet
they have watered their stock and’nul
lifted the laws of the State.
’ All we ask is a Just and reasonable
rate. We are not seeking to put .any
Injustice on the railroads, nor do we
want any Injustice done the people.
When this commission was first organ
ised one of the very first things it did
■was to cut the passenger rates to per
cent, reduc'ng it from five to three
cents per mile. In the nature of things
the time was bound to come when
there should be a reduction also In that
rate. We believe that time has now
come as is shown by the prosperity of
the country and of the railroads. Every
time there has been a decrease in the
passenger rate there has ben a conse
quent increase in the earnings. The
time has come when the peor.le are
entitled to share In this prosprity of
would take snap Judgment on the !
1 200 of 3.502 miles of th.-se lines in i
Georgia ard about 43h more which are '
being built He had prepared the j
facts in the case from the standpoint '
of the shert lines, he S2id. and was
ready to present them es soon as it
was made apparent what they had to ;
answer. But he did not propose to j
fight a. chimera.
Mr. Lawton’s Statement.
Vice-President A. R. Lawton of the
Central of Georgia made a genertl :
and pointed statement of the ease
from the standpoint of that system, i
He had no sympathy, he said, with the •
policy that would accord different !
treatment to owners of Georgia prop- I
erties who reside without the State
and those who live in it.
"I cannot accept the statement.”
Mr. Lawton said.. "that the rights of j
the people who use rtiilroad properties
are equal to the rights of those who
own them. I am controlled to deny it,
but I am not prepared to deny that
the public has large and broad'rights
In railroad properties which have been
established beyond a doubt.”
Mr. Lawton denied that a railroad
fare could be any more considered a
tax on the public, than a lawyer’s fee
or a grocer’s charge for a sack of
flour.
"There is no law.” Mr. Lawton de
clared, "which confines us to a fair
return upon the actual value of our
property. We have a
ing
tnd
NOP.FOLK. Va., April 2.—A heavy frost
in the Norfolk Country trucking belt last
night, with the thermometer down to 39
degrees. did much damage to growin;
crops, such as early potatoes, peas
beans and fruit also suffered to a consid
erable extent. Strawberries were in
b.oom. but these being close in the vines
were more protected and did not suffer
to such an extent as did fruit in the
biooir
LYNCHBURG. Va.. April 2.—The tem
perature dropped to 25 last night, t tie
minimum for April in the past 2*; years,
and it is believed that the early fruit crop
is practically ruined. There was no frost,
but a severe freeze.
TO COST $200,000
DEAD IN TOO CATARRH OF THE KBBNEYS.
BET WM. LEE’S GAZE
William Bailey, Past Col. Enc. No. 6g, Union Veteran Legion, prominently
identified with many ofthe great labor protective associations in Chicago and Nc ~o
York, and Secretary of one of the largest associations in the former city.
SAVANNAH. Ga.. April 2.—His
mother dead In a tub of water was
the distressing sight that met the gaz;
of William Lee this morning when he
ROWE. Md.. April 2.—The fruit crop of
Southern Maryland has been killed by the
cold weather today when the thermome
ter's registered 22 degrees. Vegetation
lmd become far advanced by the summer-
like wcatiir of March.
SAVANNAH. Ga.. April 2.—Hearts from
Middle and South Georgia indicate that
vegetables and farm crops have been
seriously damaged by the cold of the last
two days. They were well advanced for
this time of the year.
Growers tonight’say that they are un
able to tell whether the peach crop has
been damaged. Fear is felt in account of
tonight's low temperature.
AMERICUS. Ga., April 2.—While
considerable dee and frost appeared
here this morning, orchardmen express
belief that the peach .crop is unin
jured. High winds prevailing for two
constitutional , days dried the blooms of moisture pre-
ATLANTA. Ga., April 2.—The officers
and employes of the Southern Railway
will build in Atlsnts a hospital costing
$200,000 for the treatment of railroad men j arose for hir.'breakfast.' hTs mother,
and their families as a memorial to the j Mrs. Daniel Lee. had tripped over a
late Samuel Spencer, president of the J stick of wood and fallen Into the tub.
road. The money has nearly all been ■ where she suffocated. His efforts to
raised by subscription, and it is reported : revive her were without avail,
that J. F. Morgan, of New York, has do- ! Mrs. Lee was 60 years old. She
nut -$10 000 toward the hospital. It was • lived in her own home with her son.
at first intended to erect a monument to ' her onlv relative. on Williamson
pencer In the'new terminal station
ill Lilt; lit-*-. ICI iUiU U SU1UUU oi,-
here, but the contributions made for that str ? e * - lJe ®£° se , t0 S® 1
purpose will be diverted to the hospital and it was while going about
fun !. that the accident occurred
breakfast.
this task
BUSSE IS ELECTED MAYOR
OF CHICAGO OVER DUNNE
BY A PLURALITY OF 13,121
CHICAGO, April 2.—The total vote
for Mayor is as follows:
Busse, Republican, 164 S39.
Dunne. Democrat, 151.71S.
Reubaker. Prohibitionist, 5,875.
Keep, Socialist, 13,439.
Busse's plurality. 13,121.
Kearst Supported Dunne.
Wm. Randolph Hearst came person-
captains against what developed to be
a distracted and divided Democratic
party."
Mr. Busse, who is postmaster of the
city, gave out a statement to the fol
lowing effect:
"I am of course greatly surprised at
the success of the Republican ticket.
It shows that the people of this city
viously accumulated and probably
saved this valuable crop. Truckers
and gardeners here lost cons'derably
in the destruction of vegetable gar
dens, while young cotton and corn re
cently ploughed and ' cultivated are
severely nipped.
right to charge a reasonable rate not
withstanding the fact that it gives
us a high return on that value. The
only limitation put upon us is that we
shall charge a reasonable rate.”
Mr. Lawton said the railroads had
given the figures to the railroad com
mission to the extent that the law re
quires. Railroads do not keep exten- ROANOKE, Va., April 2.—A severe
sive figures on file, and it is a matter coId wave, following a fortnight of
of labor and expense to prepare them. : warm weather, passed over this section
“Two years ago we came here, Just last n l£ht, the thermometer standing as
as we are here today to fight a wind- as 1® in the valley. Peaches, cher-
mill. Nobody on that occasion gave r * es ant ^ Plum trees were In fun bloom
one single reason why the passenger and were killed by the freeze. Apples
fares should be reduced. If the argu- ; r -re somewhat damaged and vegetables
ment just made by counsel Is all we ar ® Injured. The wheat crop has suffer-
have to meet, the Central of Georgia et ^ af places. Near Roanoke, the
Is ready. If there are any further Hoomaw orchard with six thousand
reasons to be presented, we would ; flna Peach trees in bloom was laid low.
like to have them.” ....
The Central. Mr. Lawton said, had HILLSBORO, Ga., April 2.—This lo-
made a showing In the United States ! caljty was visited by a severe frost
Court to the effect that It is not mak- . and ice last night, which killed all the
Ing a fair return upon its Investment. : vcffctotion in early gardens and all
I have no apology for going into • ^“ e tiuit on 200,000 peach trees,
the Federal courts to enforce my Fed- j
eral rights any more than I have for ;
going into the State courts to enforce
my rights under the laws of the ,
State." ,
The Alabama law forfeiting the •
right to do business In the State if.
appeal is made to the Federal court, I
he declared, was a great bluff and
would not stand. |
‘‘When the country is prosperous TALLAHASSEE. Fla., April 2.—The
we are entitled to share in it Just as ! Florida Legislature met today and or-
much as anyone else. We are entitled I ganized by the election of F. Hunt
to a reasonable return not only for one ' Harris, of Key West, as president of
year, but for all time. If It be con- the Senate and Eugene Matthews, edi-
ccded that S per cent Is a reasonable tor of the Starke Telegraph, as speak
return, and for a period of ten years ; er of the House. The body will be In
we earn nothing, then I contend that session sixty days.
for the next ten years we are entitled j The Governor’s message was recelv-
to earn 16 per cent.” | ed In both houses. It Is a lengthy doc-
Despite assertions to the contrary, I ument, covering about twenty news-
Col. Lawton declared that the Central paper columns.
of Georgia is todav capitalized at les3 1 _In discussing the race question. Gov.
ally from New York to take pare in f av or immediate improvement In our
the campaign and brought with him
cartoonists and editorial writers. His
papers were the only ones published
in the city supporting Mayor Dunne, j
all other newspapers being for Busse j
and the ordinances. The papers fav- |
oring Busse made much of the cry
street car systems, and that they em
dorse the ordinances passed by the
City Council over the veto of Mayor
Dunne.”
BALTIMORE, Md., April 2.—Primary
elections held here today resulted in
that Chicago was able to manage its I the nomination of J. Barry Mahool, by
own interests without receiving in- j the Democrats for mayor and that of
structions from New York. The : the present Incumbent, E. Clay Him-
Hearst papers claimed that Mayor I anus, by the Republicans for the same
Dunne was acting for the best inter- office. Mahool who was the organlza-
TO SOLVE RACE ISSUE
than its actual cost and at less than
It would cost to reproduce the system.
"We are entitled to have something
to answer,” he said. “Our answer
now is that you decided this question
in 1903. What is wrong with that de
cision?”
Complainants Again Heard.
J. R. Jordan, representing the Farm
ers’ Union, said he wished to discuss
Broward, in his message, says that while
no question has arisen to cause any dis
turbance. yet it is apparent that the re
lations between the two races Is becom
ing more strained and acute. In offering
a solution of the problem. Gov. Broward
says:
’’I recommend a resolution memorializ
ing Congress to purchase territory, either
domestic or foreign, and provide means
to purchase the property of the negroes
at reasonable prices and to transport the
three points in connection with the unUe^BtatV’s 6 ; Lhc"umtod’atate^to^fo™
question, the economic and social , a government for them of the negro race;
views and whether Intellectual and , to prevent foreign invasion, and prevent
civic benefits which would follow, I white people from living among them in
would be sufficient to justify the re- i I* 1 ® territory, and to prevent negroes from
ductlon asked. He said the majority ml srating back to the United States.”
of the citizens of Georgia are poor: ! CORNERSTONE- FvenriRcc
they earn their living by the sweat of CORNERSTONE EXERCISES
their brow. Labor is entitled to have THIRD DISTRICT SCHOOL,
the benefit of the best market. The AMERICUS, Ga., April 2.—Arrange-
fares charged in Georgia are enormous , tnents for the cornerstone exercises of
when compared with those charged In i fhe Third district agricultural college
foreign countries. In Georgia a farmer i were discussed this morning by the
must pay 3 cents a mile; In Germany executive committee In session here
he can ride, fourth class, for 2-3 of a ! H has been suggested that the Masonic
cent. The Farmers’ Union, he said, j fraternity and people of the Third dis-
is not asking for a 2 cent rate on the trict generally, together with Governor
small Independent lines, but consider- 1 Terrell, Congressman Lewis and oth-
ed that the large and strong corpora- ] fT distinguished Goergians be invited,
tions should be forced to allow the *be people of Sumter acting as hosts
poor population of the State to travel. I ?. ' ae occasion. Should this proposi
ests of Chicago and that It was, there
fore, their duty to support him.
Dunne Affected by Results.
Mayor Dunne received the returns
at his home, surrounded by his family
and a few friends. He appeared great
ly affected by the result, and said:
"It looks as though the money pow
er has overwhelmed us but our cause
tion candidate deaefted Geo. Stewart
Brown. Mayor Timanus opponent was
ex-Congressman Frank C. Wachter.
The latter earled only six of the twen
ty-four wards.
GUTHRIE, Okla., April 2.—Returns
from today’s elections in Oklahoma and
Indian Teritory indicates sweeptngy
is not lost. Municipal ownership and j gains for the Republicans. In Guthrie,
governmental ownership will win in j the entire Republican ticket was elect-
the end.” ed. The Democrats of Oklahoma City
Corporation Counsel James Hamil- j claim the election of their ticket. Re
ton Lewis, who has been a staunch [ publicans tickets were successful in
supporter of Mayor Dunne, said at 6 J Enid. Shawnee, King Fisher. Tulsa,
o'clock: Chichasha, and Okmulgee, while Law-
"The result came because a combln • ! ton, Hobart and Norman returned re
ed Republican party was led by able * dueed Democratic majorities.
FIGHTING WITH TROUBLES
BOSTON, April I.—The fact that
that the minor "troubles” of the tele
phone service and the measures taken
to keep the plant in perfect working
condition, day in and day out. cost the
Bell companies millions of dollars every
year. This does not count the havoc
wrought among the wires by storms
and flods—the calamities of business,
as they may be called—but includes
only the diurnal round of_ things gone
wrong which are sometimes simple
enough when they are found, but are
often very difficult to locate and al
ways even more disconcerting and an
noying, and much more expensive, to
the telephone men than to their sub
scribers.
After all, it Is surprising, when you
come to think of it, how little inter
ruption of the telephone service there
is. The records of Bell exchanges in
the big cities show that on the average
no one subscriber’s service is inter
rupted even for a second oftener than
once in four years. A 10,000-line
switchboard, such as Is used in the
larger central offices, contains 4,000
miles of wire and 2,000,009 soldered
connections, with hundreds of thous
ands of small parts, including 15 000
incandescent electric lamp signals no
bigger around than an old-fashioned
•slate pencil, with filaments finer than
a human hair. The auxiliary appara
tus through which the outside circuits
are distributed and brought to the
switchboard contains other thousands
ground cable cut clear through by a
crowbar which had been driven with
such force that it penetrated first the
conduit', then the sheath of the cable,
then the closely packed wires, and
finally the sheath again. Rats cause a
lot of bother by gnawing away the lead
sheaths of underground cables mis
taking them for water pipes, the
"trouble shooters” declare. And oc
casionally, in winter, _a little water will
get into a manhole and, freezing on the
connections, crush a cable all out of
shape until It puts it out of commis
sion.
There was a curious ense of trouble
near Boston a few summers ago which
puzzled the Bell linemen a good deal.
It occurred on a pole line that had been
built sixty feet high to carry the w'res
above the trees, the foliage being cut
away on either side to prevent inter
ference. The trouble was intermittent.
It would begin violently and then, be-
Attributes Present Good Health to Pe-ru-na.
MR. BAILEY had for nearly thirty | judicious use of that great remedy,
years been afflicted with Kidney trou- | Washington climate is notoriously bad
bles. for kidney and liver troubles yet by n
Within a short period he has been per- (judicious use of the remedy he Is now
suaded to try Peruna, and his present quite cured and in excellent physical
healthy condition is attributed to his I condition.
This brief statement of facts, without exaggeration or hyperbole, appears
to tell the whole story, which the Peruna Company is authorized to use, if
it so chooses, believing, as I do, that by so dcing it will be for the general
good.—William Bailey, 58 I St,, N. E., Washigton, D. C,
CATARRH FOR TEN YEARS, PE-RU-NA RELIEVED: "I have been af
flicted with catarrh for about ten years, and I have tried different remedies
and no benefit. About two years ago I bought a bottle of Peruna and com
menced using It according to directions, and it relieved me so much, I contin
ued using Peruna until I had used five bottles, and now I hardly feel the ef
fects of catarrh at all. I have also used Peruna in my fam'lv for fever with
good success. I cheerfully recommend it to all.”—Mr. John M. Winstead, R.
F. D., No. 2, Treadway, Tenn.
HARRIMAN ENROLLED
IN THE ANANIAS CLUB
NEW YORK, April 2.—A sensation ! private citizen might. So you see r
was created here today by the publl- j was brought forward by Roosevelt in
cation of a letter written in December, i an attempt to help, at It's request, the
1905, and addressed to Mr. Sidney ! same as I was in the insurance matter
Webster, of New York, and signed
‘E. H. Hardman."
Sidney Webster is a lawyer and a
writer on political subjects. His wife
is a sister of Stuyvesant Fish, who
lost the presidency of the Illinois Cen
tral Railroad a few months ago, after
antagonizing Mr. Harriman. Follow
ing is the 1 portion of the letter refer
ring to Ills relations with President
Roosevelt In the campaign of 1904:
“As to my political Instincts to
which you refer in your letter of De- •'
cember 13. I am quite sure I have none
and my being made at all prominent
by Hyde and Ryan by their request for
my help. Yours sincerely.
(Signed) “E. H. HARRIMAN.”
in the political situation is entirely
fore it could be located It disappeared i due to President Roosevelt and be-
and everything was working properly ! cause D f my taking an active part in
again. After a week’s search one of
the "trouble shooters” found an um
brella rib lodged way out on a branch
of a tree, where it interfered with the
wires only when the wind blew from
just the right direction.*
Several years ago there was a very
mysterious case of telephone trouble In
an ice plant a few miles out from tbe
city. The service worked all right
during the day, but every evening be
tween a quarter of five and a quarter
past it was so affected that while “Cen-
Xew business, he declared, would
come as a result of the reduction and
the railroads would make practically
as much as they are earning now.
Mr. Alexander again took the floor
and presented some figures showing
the result of operations of the Wes-
tion prevail an early date will be se
lected for the exercises.
CITY ATTORNEY RYMAN
ASSAULTED BY W. B. MOORE
FITZGERALD. Ga., April 2.—Just
after dinner as Col. E. TV. Ryman, city
tern and Atlantic or State road. The j attorney, was descending the stairs
passenger earnings of this road last j from his office he was assaulted by
year, he said, in Georgia alone were YT. B. Moore, a real estate man, who
$419,000. A reduction of one-third bad been waiting for him. After
would take off $140,000. A large part Some struggling. Col. Ryman threw
of that reduction would be, made up his assailant to the pavement and
by increased business. The total net held him until a policeman came up.
earnings of the road in Georgia were j The cause of the attack was the fact
$695,000, and after deducting the one- : that Col. Ryman was the prosecuting
third of passenger earnings would : attorney in a criminal charge against
leave $555,000, or enough to pay the Moore. Some blood was shed by
State the amount of the lease and , Moore's head striking the pavement,
leave $150,000 net profit. This he as- : Otherwise no damage resulted.
serted, was sufficient and furnished <
an example of what might well be j TWO ADDITIONAL
f° ne _' n . the case of other ra * * roads in J ^ v , ORTH ?^°mo£
tn ® , .. ,, I ing the debris of the two freight trains
Ho called attention to the fact that • on the Missouri. Kansas and Texa- Rail-
the Central of Georgia Is owned and j road, wrecked a t Bethel switch near here
of miles of wire and other hundreds of I ^ral' could call the ice company the ice
thousands of parts. For instance, the
“relay" by which the current is intro
duced into each subscriber’s line—each
line having its own special relay—
contains a mile and a half of wire a*
fine as ordinary sewing cotton—so fine
that it takes four miles of it to weigh
a pound: and besides the subscribers’
relays there are several hundred others
for trunk lines, office circuits, oper
ators' positions, and so on.
In this maze of delicately adjusted
mechanism occure nearly half of all
the telephone man’s troubles. For
tunately for him the central office plant
is arranged with such skillful method
that every part of it can be reached
company could not call “Central.” The
next morning everything would be all
right again. AH sorts of tests and in
spections were made but they revealed
nothing that would account for the
queer state of affairs.
After a long investigation it was
found that a tiny piece of aluminum
wire in a fuse box three miles from the
ice company’s office had been flattened
just enough by its fastenings 30 that in
the cool of the evening it contracted
sufficiently to increase the resistance
on the line to a point which the current
from the subscriber’s telephone could
not overcome, though the more power
ful current from the central office
the autumn of 1904. at his request,
and his taking advantage of conditions
then created to further his own inter
ests. If it had been a premeditated
pot it could not have been better
started or carried out.
Roosevelt Sent For Him.
“About a week before the election
in the autumn of 1904. when it looked
certain that the State ticket would go
Democratic and was doubtful as to
Roosevelt himself, he. the President,
sent me a request to go to Washington
to confer upon the political conditions
in New York State. I complied and
he told me he understood the cam
paign could .not be successfully carried
on without sufficient money and asked
if I would help them in raising the
necessary funds, as the national com
mittee, under control of Chairman
Cortelyou, had utterly failed of obtain
ing them, and there was a large
amount due from them to the New
York State committee.
“I explained to him that I under
stood the difficulty here was mainly
caused by the up-State leaders being
unwilling to support Depew for re-
election as United States Senator;
ppsilv if ‘ anvthine goes wrong and ! cou,<i get by it. The warmth of the I that if he. Depew. could be taken care
man^- cases of trouble in the exchange morning sun expanded It again, so the ; of in some other way I thought mat- ment:
. .. ... .. ' folonhnnhr wnrlznii nmnurh* t H n. » nmiLI hti Qtilitsrofl and I IP fllTTPl— ,\l
Depew Knows Nothing About It.
NEW YORK. Apr 1 ! 2.—Son tor Doppw,
when asked about the Harriman letter,
siid: “I know nothing about it, except
that the part that refers to me as am-
bissador to France. It is true that a
friend told me that I might lie nnpoinjed
to that place, hut I told aim that I did not
care at all for'tbe ambassadorship That
is all I can say about the Harriman
letter."
Cornelius N. Bliss mad’e this repl v to
questions: "I haven't seen the Harriman
letter; I don't want to see it. and If I did
see it. I would say nothing about it.”
HARRIMAN WAS BROUGHT
FORWARD BY ROOSEVELT.
WASHINGTON. April 21—President
Roosevelt today emphatically denied
the statement contained in a letter
published this morning, purporting to
have been written by E. H. Harriman
to Sidney Webster of New York, in
the latter part of December. 1903. In
Mr. Harriman’s letter the statement
is made that at the request of Presi
dent Roosevelt, he, Harriman, assist
ed in raising a fund of $250,000 to he
used In carrying New York for the
Republican party at the election of
1904. This statement the President
characterizes as “a deliberate and wil
ful untruth—by right it should lie
characterized by an even shorter and
more ugly word. I never requested
Mr. Harriman to raise a dollar for too
Presidential campaign of 1904.”
President's Denial.
The, President's denial was con
tained in a brief statement and eopics
of letters written to Representative
Sherman, of New York. The letters
are dated October S and October 12,
1906 respectively. The President,
after furnishing the letters to the
press, dictated the following state-
equipment are remedied without the worked properly during the j ters could be adjusted and the differ-
subscriber knowing that they have oc- new fuse wire was put in and ent contending elements in the party
curred. But to keep the system, in- j there has never been any trouble there
s ! de and out. in the perfect working j smce - ^
order which minimizes "troubles” and {
assures efficient service Is a tremen-
yesterdny. two additional unidentified
bodies were found today by workmen.
These make the total dead as a result
of the wreck eight.
the road
Mr. Alexander called attention to
one Instance. He lives, he said, seven
miles from Atlanta. He has stock feed
shipped In carload lots from «South
Carolina. It costs him $5 a car more
to have that feed stopped at his place
than It does to bring It on to the citv
of Atlanta. That he declared, was an
unjust tax and was imposed by the
railroads simply because thev had the
power to do it.
Here Mr. Alexander concluded his
statement.
A. Pope said he was simply an old
fashioned every day traffic man. He
did not Intend to make a stump
speech. Ha represented, he said the
independently owned short lines and I of
mmiIA urs - anu » certie.i. i nave none or oiviue.
coma not believe the commission Chairman Hill then announced that
controlled by the Southern Railway,
which, he said, he presumed no one
would attempt to deny. The result
had been to deny to the people of the
State the benefits of competition.
Mr. Alexander denied the truth of
the proposition laid down by Col.
Lawton to the effect that railroads
were entitled to make as much as
they could so long as they charged
reasonable rates. That was contrary,
he said to the Supreme Court of the
United ’ States. There is no other
basis to get at what a fair and rea- „
sonable charge is except by making It : COLUMBUS. Ga-. April 2.—At the
a reasonable return on the investment request of the board of directors of
the Georgia Immigration Association
the newly elected president of the as-
dous expense, the Bell companies set
ting aside a third of their gross income
every year for maintenance and re
pairs.
Considerable malicious damage is
done by thieves who strip cables, leav-
the wires exposed to rain and gleet,
for the sake of the lead of which the
covering Is made. Squirrels are almost
PLOT AGAINST GOVERNMENT OF
KING CHARLES OF ROUMANIA
BERLIN. April 2.—A dispatch to the
Tageblatt from Czernowltz, Austria-Hun
gary. not far from the Roumanian fron
tier. says that intelligence has been re
ceived there from Bucharest to the effect
that a plot has been discovered at the
Roumanian capitol against King Charles
and his Governmnet. The city of Bucha
rest. it is added, is In a state of great
excitement, peasants are not permitted to
brought Into alliance again. We talk'
ed over what could be done for De
pew and finally he agreed If found
necessary he would appoint him as
ambassador to Paris.
“With full belief that he, the Presi
dent, would keep this agreemenL I
came back to New York, sent for
‘After writing these letters to Con
gressman Sherman, the President was
assured that Mr. Harriman had hot
made the statements which Mr. Sher
man credited him with making. In
asmuch as the same statements ap
pear in the major part in rite letter
of Mr. Harriman now published, the
President deems it proper that the let
ters he sent to Congressman Shcr-
WILL VISIT EUROPE
a= bad as two-legged thieves, gnawing J enter the capital and numerous arrests
the protecting metal away, and some- j has been made.
times also tampering with the Insula- .
tion of the wires within. The brush- i Funeral of Mrs. Joseph B. McDonald,
i ing of overhanging tree limbs against j COLUMBUUS, April 2.—The re-
the wires particularly in wet weather, | mains of Mrs. Henrietta Bacon Me- !
when the trees are heavy, and. being i Donald, wife of Capt Joseph B. Me- j
damp, are good electrical conductors. ! Donald, who died Sundey night at her j
is the commonest, perhaps, of all the home at Alexander City, Ala., were !
causes of overhead troubles and H so : brought to Columbus, her old home, j
detrimental to good transmission that • this afternoon, and the funeral took |
In some localities the Bell compan'es ! place from Trinity Episcopal Church. Bliss, who took them
in the property.
Hearing Is Postponed.
No one expressing a desire to be heard,
the commission was about to postpone
the further hearing to April 17. when
some misunderstanding arose as to what
sort of a showing would be expected of
the railroads at the time
sociation, G. Gunby Jordan, will make
a tour of Northern Europe. Accom
panied by his niece. Miss Maude P.
Burnett, he will sail on the Kaiser
William II of the North German
Chairman HI!! announced_ that the Rail- j Lloyd Line, departing from New York
April 9. Maj. and Mrs. W. W. Wil
liamson. of Savannah, will also be of
the party. Gov.-elect Hoke Smith and
Mrs. Smith will leave at the same
time on a European tour. A thorough
investigation of the European people
to be invited to Georgia will be made.
Early vegetables and a- good deal of
corn in this section were killed by
frost this morning.
rood Commission wanted all the informa
tion it could get on the subject, and it
nnv of the other roads desired to he heard
then or before the 17th. the commission
was readv to hear them.
“Our view.” said Mr. Alexander. ”fs
that it 1« up tn the railroads to show w^y
this reduction should not bo made. We
have closed our case, and we consider that
the burden of proof is upon them.”
"Our attitude.'’ said Col. Lawton. “Is
that nothing has been presented here,
and consequently there is nothing to an
swer We can furnish the figures if the
commission wants them, but this matter
was gone into thoroughly two years ago.
and it seems unreasonable to bring us
h"re when there is nothing for us to an-
Chairman Hi'.' said there was .a differ
ence between the rase of 3905 and the
present one Tlio 1905 cas» was a motion
made bv one‘of the commission for a tint
2-rent rate- th- present petition simnly
asked a reduction without stating the
•'mount The Commission, he said, would
like to have the railroads throw all pos
sible light on the case.
j \v Og’esbv. president of the South
Georgia Railroad, said the railroads had
don-' about ns much for the pub!!' s* the
public had done for them. "All I can
cee in this crs*." be said, “is a proptrtrfon
that we whack un with the p<v>nle. . >e,e
seems to he .an idea that we have made
some monev and the public wants a part
distributed. So far »» I. am con
cerned. I have none to divid
Treasurer Bliss wlio told me that it man last October shall nc
was their last hope and that they had | selvess be made public.”
exhausted every other resource. In j In the first letter referenr
his presence I called up an intimate
friend of Senator Depew, told him
that it was necessary in order to car
ry New York State that $200,000
should be raised at once, and if he
would help I would subscribe $50 000.
After a few words over the telephone
the gentleman said he would let me
know, which he did probably in three
or four hours, with the result tnat the
whole amount, including my subscrip
tion. had been raised.
The checks were given to Treasurer
Chairman
r them-
Is made
to a conversation between Mr. Harri
man and"Mi*. Sherman which was re
peated to the President, in which Mr.
Harriman is said to have given as a
reason for his personal dislike of the
President partly the latter’s determi*;
nation to have the railroads supervis
ed and partly the alleged fact that
after promising Mr. Harriman to ap
point Senator Depew ambassador to
France, he. the President, failed to do
it. “and" continues the President, "I
understood you to say that he alleg
ed that I made this promise at a time
are particularly annoying because tie i bama, survive her. ’ She~was a prom- ' senbers were, other than the frieCiL.
number of wires in underground cables | inent mpm her of the Datts-hters of the ! of Depew. who was an individual Th.s
_ , .. , inent member of the Daughters of the
is much Iarsrer than in overhead cables ( Confederacy and the Daughters of the
and therefore the number of circuits . Arner i C an Revolution,
effected is correspondmglv greater. An
Just Like Bibb.
FITZGERALD. Ga, April 2.—State
School Commissioner W. B. Merr tt
delivered an eloquent address upon ed
ucational matters during the noon in-
terimssion of the Superior Court. His
remarks were well received and if the
authorities act on his recommendations
we will organize our school system on
the same basis as that of Fulton and
Bibb counties.
there were other matters to come up on
April 17. the Commission had dec!d“d to
let the whole matter go over until April
23. wnen the hearine will be taken up
and pushed to a conclusion.
"The question is.” said, ’as to a
reduction in the passenger fare. No fig
ure is stated. Can the railroads stand'a
reduction at all. and. if so. how much?”
The hearing then stood adjourned.
njery to an underground cable which [ CAPTAIN SWIFT FOUND GUILTY
eventually causes trouble may exist a: __ WP /;i cct nnrv
month or two before it makes Us pres- ^ ,? T ° F
ence known. Then, if only a part of j WASHINGTON, April 2.—Captain
the wires are "out” the damage can be William Swift, who was in command j districts in Greater New York, and in
amount enabled the New York Stal*
eammittee to continue its work, with
the result that at least 50,900 votes
were turned in th> c’ty of New York
alone, making a difference of 100,000
votes in the general result.
There are between 2,200 and 2.300
Joeated bv testing from the exchange ! °f the battleship Connecticut when it : a campaign such as that the expenda
on those that are uninjured: but if an | grounded near Culebra on January , ture Q f. say $50 in each district fr
for
campaign purposes, not including the
watchers on election day, would take
more than $100,000.
Roosevelt Went Back on It.
“Some time in December. 1904, on my
way from Virginia to New York, I
entire section of cable Is bad tests j 13, was found guilty of Inattention and
mu't be made from manhole to man- j neglect of duty by the courtmartial,
hole until the faultv length of line is I which tried him at Norfolk. The navy
discovered i department reviewed the sentence and
Freouently cable trouble under- I today it was announced by Assistant
ground is caused by the carelessness of j Secretary Newberry that Captain Swift _
workmen who are d'gging sewers, lay- > will be suspended for nine months and stopped and had a short talk with the
ing water or gas pipes, repairing j will lose three numebrs. The court- , president. He then told yr.e that he
efreeta or do'ng some w:rk of the/ ! martial recommended suspension for a . aid not think it necessary to appoint
kind. A while ;ieo the men of a high- ! year and a half and loss of five num- ! Depew as ambassador to Paris, as
way gang working on the approaches ! hers, but as the court also asked that ! agreed; in fact, favored h:m for the
to a bridge in a suburban town near j Captain Swift be dealt with leniently ’ Senate. I had not expected that he
Boston came across what looked like a f^i® department reduced the sentence. | was the one to say as to what would
wooden box buried several feet below
the surface. The foreman, evidently
witheut stooping to think twice, told
them to “ch'n the thing out and throw
it away." Th's they proceeded to do
with enthusiasm, and a few minutes
later telephone subscribers In the ad-
ioining towns wonder'd why they could
not get “Centra!” and began making
vigorous complaints.
“Trouble men” have found an nnder-
be nccessarv, but he arrogated that to
himself, and I. of course, could say
nothing further. After that I used
what Influence I could to have Depew
returned to the Senate, as I cons'dered
Good Rains.
FITZGERALD. Ga., April 2.—A
t»untifui rain yesterday lasting all
night broke a dry spell of several
weeks’ duratfon, and which had made | there had been an implied obligation
planting unusually late. Oats and j which should be lived up to.
wheat had begun to suffer for want of “This is the way I was brought to
moisture. About the usual area of cot- ! the surface in political matters, as I
ton will be planted, with a large in- | had never before taken any active part
crease In corn and oats.
Would Not Appoint Depew.
It appears from the conversation re
peated to the President that Mr.
Sherman had gone tc Mr. Harriman
to ask him for a contribution for the
campaign. The President says that
Harriman also, (more than once) he
thinks, urged him to promise to make
Mr. Depew ambassador because this
would help Gov. O’Dell by pleasing
certain big financial interests. The
President said he informed Mr. Har
riman that he did not believe it would
be possible to appoint Mr. Depew and
furthermore expressed his surprise at
his (Harriman’s) saying the n:tn rep
resenting the big financial interests
of New York wished the appointment
made, inasmuch as a numl r of them
had written asking that the place be
given to Air. Hyde. Air. Harriman on
learning Mr. Hyde was a candidate,
hastily said that he did not wish to
he understood as antagonizing him,
.and would be quite willing to support
him. The President says that al
though he understood that he (Harri
man) still preferred Air. Depew. be
left a strong impre~?ion that ’he
would be almost as well satisfied with
Hyde.
Some correspondence is to ho given
between the President and A7r. Harri
man from which it appears on Octo-
j and had only done what I could as any her 10 the President said to Mr. Harri-
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